WEBVTT AND NEW AT 5:00, AN UPDATE TO ASTORY WE FIRST TOLD YOU ABOUTLAST WEEKEND.SHAUN: JPSO NOW SAYS A TEENAGERLIED ABOUT BEING ROBBED ATLAKESIDE MALL THEN SHOT.THIS IS 17-YEAR-OLD JACOBYDAVIS.JEFFERSON PARISH DEPUTIES SAYINITIALLY, DAVIS TOLD THEM HEWAS WALKING UP TO THE MALL WHEN2 MEN GRABBED HIM, AND ROBBEDHIM OF $100.HE SAID A WOMAN WAS DRIVING THEGETAWAY CAR, A LATE MODEL REDDODGE CHARGER.JOHNSON ALLEGEDLY TOLD POLICE HEFOLLOWED THEM, IN HIS CAAND WHEN THEY GOT TO THE 2800BLOCK OF ATHANIA PARKWAY, HE WASSHOT AT.JPSO SAYS HIS STORY CHANGEDMULTIPLE TIMES.HE'S NOW BEEN GIVEN A SUMMONS TO

Jefferson Parish detectives determined that a LaPlace teenager who reported a robbery and shooting at Lakeside Shopping Center lied about what actually occurred.

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New details were released Thursday by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office on the robbery that was reported Saturday at the mall on Veterans Boulevard.

Investigators said the teenager, Jacoby Davis of LaPlace, first reported that he was walking toward the mall when he was approached by two men, one of whom reached for his waist and demanded money. He handed over money and the robbers fled in a getaway car, officials said.

Davis first told the Sheriff's Office that he chased the robbers to the 2800 block of Athania Parkway, where he said one of the robbers got out and shot at him, but missed.

In the update on Thursday, the Sheriff's Office said detectives believed Davis was not being truthful about what happened because "he changed his story."

Investigators said during subsequent questioning, Davis told officers that he came across a group of people who were in the parking garage playing a betting game. He told the officers that he was forced to play.

Officials said the investigation was slowed down because of the holiday weekend and the lack of witnesses or businesses that might have seen the robbery or shooting.

Davis was questioned again on Wednesday and told detectives that the group in the parking garage was playing a gambling game that consisted of a black board with three bottle caps and a small ball of marijuana hidden under one of the bottle caps.

Davis told the officers that he willfully participated in the game, but decided to quit shortly afterward, the Sheriff's Office said. He said that one of the men took his money and left in a red Dodge Charger.

Officials said that Davis refuted claims he previously made during his first police report. He also refused to answer additional questions about the investigation.

Davis was issued a misdemeanor summons for criminal mischief and false reporting and for gambling in public, the Sheriff's Office said.

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